21 Facts About Canton Bulldogs

Canton Bulldogs were a professional American football team, based in Canton, Ohio.

The Bulldogs won the 1916,1917, and 1919 Ohio League championships.

Canton Bulldogs took the Bulldogs name and its players to Cleveland and named his franchise the Cleveland Bulldogs.

Canton Bulldogs offered to sell the Canton franchise back to the city of Canton to play in the 1924 season; however, there were no buyers interested in the team.

The Canton Bulldogs were re-established in 1925, and the NFL considers the 1925 to 1926 Canton Bulldogs to be the same team as the 1920 to 1923 incarnation.

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The Canton Bulldogs were officially established on November 15,1904, as the Canton Athletic Club, a club designed to operate baseball and football teams.

The Canton Bulldogs then traveled to Latrobe, Pennsylvania to play the Latrobe Athletic Association, led by quarterback John Brallier.

Sometime during the 1906 season, the Canton team became known as the "Bulldogs" although no one is quite sure how it came to be affixed to the Canton team.

Year the Bulldogs won their first game against the Tigers, at Canton, but lost the second game at Massillon.

Canton Bulldogs denied the charges, maintaining that Massillon only wanted to ruin the club's reputation before their final game with Latrobe.

In 1911, Canton Bulldogs finally fielded a new team called the Canton Bulldogs Professionals.

In 1915, Massillon and Canton Bulldogs began hiring several players away from the Akron Pros.

In 1917, the Canton Bulldogs won their first eight games to claim the league championship.

The Canton Bulldogs went on to win back-to-back NFL championships in 1922 and 1923.

Canton Bulldogs's asking price for the team was $1,500, which was decided to be about $500 more than the 1922 champions were worth.

Canton Bulldogs added seven players from Canton, renamed his team the Cleveland Bulldogs, and they won the 1924 NFL championship.

Canton Bulldogs became the first to coach NFL champions in three consecutive years.

Deutsch then sold the franchise back to a group of Canton investors for $3,000 and the Canton Bulldogs were back in the NFL, along with the Cleveland Bulldogs.

Secondly, the Canton Bulldogs were one of the early powers of pro football both before and after 1920.

An NFL charter member, the Canton Bulldogs became the new league's first two-time champions with undefeated seasons in 1922 and 1923.

In late 1959, the citizens of Canton Bulldogs responded enthusiastically to a Canton Bulldogs Repository editorial that pointed out why a Hall of Fame should be located in their city.